Why People Hate Jews

In 1935, Germany — one of the most educated, culturally sophisticated nations on Earth — passed laws stripping an entire people of their citizenship.

Not because those people had done anything wrong.

Not because they were a military threat.

Because they were Jews.

And here's what should keep you up at night:

It wasn't new. It wasn't German. And it wasn't over.

Antisemitism is the world's oldest continuously active hatred. We're talking 2,500 years. Babylon. Rome. The Crusades. The Inquisition. Pogroms. The Holocaust. And on university campuses, social media, and the press.

First They Came For the Jews…

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The Wisdom of Rabbi Block

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There are many ways to understand God. And your way is valid, because you have a unique place in the universe. Rabbi Block’s wisdom will help you find your place in this world and the next.

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Keneth Block

Rabbi Kenneth Block graduated from Boston College in 1968 and was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1974, and is a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
Rabbi Block retired after 40 years as an addiction Chaplain for the Veterans Administration Maryland Health Care Systems, as the Chaplain for the Bel Air, Maryland Volunteer Fire Company, as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine , and Chaplain for the Maryland State Firemen's Association. He was a volunteer for the Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington was is a volunteer Chaplain for Capital Caring Hospice.